Hello Ralf,
Thank you very much for the quick response. I know
you must be terribly busy with the server move, so I
won't take up too much more of your time.
I did find an old (possibly related) discussion you
were involved in:
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-09/msg00194.html
I can't tell from the thread whether it was a problem
seen on 2.6.16.29, but that might have been tip at the
time.
> It's a bug which should be fixed but nevertheless I
> can highly recommend
> something like a SiliconImage SATA controller - the
> onboard PIO PATA
> controller is so slow.
I understand, but changing that is not an option for
me today.
> I've pushed the tag again so now there is a tarball.
Thanks. I thought something was terribly wrong with
.28 for it to be skipped.
> If you need to track something like this you're
> probably best with
> git bisect which should bring you right to the
> offending commit.
I probably should have used that approach instead of
diffing .27 and .29 and narrowing the file list by
hand. As it was, there were changes to non-MIPS
platforms and devices I'm not using so those were easy
to apply to .27. Also, there were many file changes
for MT SMP support, and *most* (but not all) of those
changes were wrapped with conditional compiles, so
those were also easy to apply. I knew once I got to
these five files I was in some interesting code that
could point to the problems I'm seeing.
> Later kernels do run on bcm1480 which is close
> enough.
By "later kernels", do you mean 2.6.16.60 or different
kernel branches?
Perhaps, but I'm seeing identical failures in .29 and
.60, although that could be misleading. I do see
significant SMP-related changes in c-sb1.c between .29
and .60, and I am running in SMP. I wish there was an
easy way to know whether it's in the same code.
Anyway, in the interest of time I may revert to .27
which appears to work. I don't need any of the MT SMP
related changes that followed, and perhaps I can live
without the enhancements between .27 and .60 for now.
Thanks,
Larry Stefani
lstefani@yahoo.com
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